For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with the total number of people in a specific religion per country
I decided to work with this dataset because I was very interested by how religion spread and influenced other religions over time due to humanities class
In my visualization, the data is represented as circles on a map with color coordination depending on which religion you are viewing
To interact with the visualization, try clicking an letter associated with a religion on your keyboard, or click on the screen anywhere to time travel 5 years into the future
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is big religions, like Christianity or Judaism were almost directly correlated with the population, going up at the same time, but les popular religions went down over time
Something I still wonder about is why a lot of religions dipped around the 2000s
The most challenging moment of this project was trying to get the right data from the spreadsheets because I had to consider what had to be cut out for simplicity sake and what could stay.
If I had more time, I would like to make the visual points on the map conform to the country they are in, because they are just random and having the dots inside of the actual countries would make it a lot more appealing
My proudest moment during this project was when I was able to switch between the different religions that you can view